American University

and

The EU Center of Excellence Washington, D.C.

invite you to a conference on

THE ECONOMICS OF ENLARGEMENT

Friday, August 22, 2008

 

Conference Program:

9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks:

Professor Steve Silvia and Professor Michelle Egan, American University

9:15 - 10.45 a.m. Panel I: Political Economy of Transition

Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University: Managing Central Europe as a Route to Managing Globalization

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Discussant: Hector Schamis, American University

10:45 - 11.00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. - 12.30 p.m. Panel II: Political and Economic Accession Negotiations

Vladimir Gligorov, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies: Trade, Investment and Development in the Balkans

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Esra Lagro, Dogus University, Istanbul: Economic Governance of EU Accession Negotiations: the Case of Turkey and Beyond

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Discussant: John Glenn, German Marshall Fund (invited)

12:30 - 1.45 p.m. Lunch

2:00 - 4.30 p.m. Panel III: Economic Governance

Sharon Fisher, Analyst and Consultant: The Lisbon Agenda: Competitiveness and the New EU Member States

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Karsten Staehr, Bank of Estonia: The Maastricht Inflation Criterion and the New EU Members from Central and Eastern Europe

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Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Federation (ETUC): Labor mobility within the enlarged EU and its impacts on local labor markets

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Discussants: Steve Silvia, American University and Ellen Meade, American University

4:30 - 5.00 p.m. Summary and Assessment

 

When: Friday, August 22, 2008

Time: 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Where: American University, Room 201, Katzen Arts Center, 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, D.C.

 

Please RSVP to Anna Olsson at ao4578a@american.edu (please put “August 22” in subject line)

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

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